Elliott West

William Elliott West is an American historian and author. He studies the history of the American West and taught as a distinguished professor at the University of Arkansas 1979–2022. His book The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado won the 1999 Francis Parkman Prize and shared the 1999 Ray Allen Billington Prize. His Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion won the 2024 Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for History. He is a past president of the Western History Association.

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